The Organizational Learning Cycle: How We Can Learn CollectivelyRoutledge, 2017 M07 5 - 264 pages The Organizational Learning Cycle was the first book to provide the theory that underpins organizational learning. Its sophisticated approach enabled readers to not only understand how, but more importantly why, organizations are able to learn. This new edition takes the original concepts and theories and shows how they might, and are, being put into action. With five new or completely revised chapters, Nancy Dixon describes the kind of infrastructure organizations need to put in place; there are examples of knowledge databases, whole systems in the room processes and after-action reviews originating from organizations that are making real progress with these ideas. A clearer relationship between organizational learning and more participative forms of organizational governance is drawn, along with responsibilities that employees need to take on to enable, and partake in, collective learning. With new case material from BP, the US Army, Ernst and Young, and the Bank of Montreal, for example, this book shows how you can make use of the collective reasoning, intelligence and knowledge of the organization and channel it into its ongoing and future development. |
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Page 1928
... activity; learning is the heart of productive activity. To put it simply, learning is the new form of labor. (p. 395) It is customary to think of learning and work as being separate activities, the former preceding the latter. Zuboff ...
... activity; learning is the heart of productive activity. To put it simply, learning is the new form of labor. (p. 395) It is customary to think of learning and work as being separate activities, the former preceding the latter. Zuboff ...
Page 1942
... activity'. The unintentional creation of meaning structures occurs outside of our conscious awareness: 'tacit comprehension'. Although the latter is more frequent, the former is more fully understood, so we shall address it first ...
... activity'. The unintentional creation of meaning structures occurs outside of our conscious awareness: 'tacit comprehension'. Although the latter is more frequent, the former is more fully understood, so we shall address it first ...
Page 1946
... activity as she attempts to make sense of new data she has taken in and to relate it to the meaning structures which she already has in long-term memory. We may construct meaning structures intentionally, as described in this example ...
... activity as she attempts to make sense of new data she has taken in and to relate it to the meaning structures which she already has in long-term memory. We may construct meaning structures intentionally, as described in this example ...
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